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The Sochi Dialogue recommends: "We perform for Austria" / Wir spielen für Österreich

The Sochi Dialogue recommends: "We perform for Austria" / Wir spielen für Österreich

Summary

We perform for Austria

16.04.2020

Famous artists sing on the Austrian channel ORF III

Organized jointly with the Vienna Opera, the concert on Sunday, April 19 (20.15 on ORF III and Radio Ö1) will open a series of three musical evenings in an online format in the studio of the Cultural House of Radio ORF. The series originated at the initiative of ORF III and in collaboration with, among others, the Vienna Opera, the Vienna People's Opera and the "United Stages of Vienna" under the motto "We perform for Austria".

Favorite artists like Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov, Juan Diego Flores, Valenitina Nafornice, Tomas Konecny, Elena Maksimova and Yongmin Park will perform arias and duets from the opera and classical repertoire, as well as songs from their native countries. The program will be supplemented by video clips with Jonas Kauffman, Peter Bucalo, Andreas Sager and Lidia Baich. The musical accompaniment is provided by the String Quartet of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as by Jendrik Springer (piano). The program will be led by the host of the program "Erlebnis Bühne" (Meeting with the Stage), Barbara Rhett, Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz will be the radio commentator.

The three concerts, which will be held under the strictest security measures in the studio of the Cultural House of Radio ORF, will be broadcast as part of the program "Erlebnis Bühne with Barbara Rhett". On April 26, the event will be held under the sign of operetta with the Vienna Folk Opera, and on May 3 – under the sign of musicals together with the United Stages of Vienna.

The concerts will be streamed online, after which they will be available for seven days as video on request worldwide (concert on April 19), as well as throughout Austria (concerts on April 26 and May 3) in the ORF media library. https://TVthek.ORF.at.

Juan Diego Flores, - "The current situation oppresses us, singers and musicians, as much as all people on the planet. With this concert, we are looking for new forms and ways to show that art will always live, and artists will always be close to the audience! »

Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov, - "We are looking forward to the concert on Sunday. We miss the public during these difficult times and hope that we can give a little joy to those who are at home. We are sure that these times will pass and we will be happy to meet again at the Vienna Opera and Concert Hall. »

PROGRAM

Juan Diego Flores – " La mia letizia infondere / I would like to pour all my immeasurable joy into her heart" from the opera "The Lombards" by Giuseppe Verdi

Juan Diago Flores – " An die Musik / To the Music", Op. 88 / No. 4 by Franz Schubert

Valentina Nafornita – "...Oh Dieu que de bijoux...Ah! Je ris de me voir / Ah! How good everything is! Ah! It's funny to look at myself! " from the opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod

Valentina Nafornice – "It's good Here", Op. 21 / No. 7 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Tomasz Konechny – "Embraceable You" George and Ira Gershwin

Tomasz Koneczny – "The Cossack" by Stanislav Monyushko

Elena Maksimova – "C'est l'amour vainqueur / Winning Love" from the opera "Tales of Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach

Elena Maksimova – "I'm Waiting for You", Op. 14 / No. 1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Petr Bechala – "Amor ti vieta / Love forbids you not to love" from the opera" Fedora " by Umberto Giordano

Yongmin Park – "Ideale / Ideal" by Francesco Paolo Tostee

Yongmin Park – "On a Swing" Jung-Shin Noh

Andreas Schager & Lydia Baich – " You'll Never Walk Alone " by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein

Yusif Eyvazov – "Una furtiva lagrima / One little tear " from the opera "Love Elixir" by Gaetano Donizetti

Yusif Eyvazov – " L'Ultima Canzone / The last song" by Francesco Paolo Tosti

Anna Netrebko – " Mattinata / Morning Serenade" by Ruggero Leoncavallo

Anna Netrebko - "Dream", Op. 38 / No. 5 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Jonas Kaufmann – "In einem kleinen Café in Hernals / In a small cafe in Hernals" Hermann Leopoldi & Peter Hertz

Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov – " Non ti scordar di me / Don't Forget Me " by Ernesto di Curtis